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Many activists in Morocco protested the laws that led to the suicide of a 16-year-old near Tangiers, who was forced to marry her rapist.
EXCLUSIVE Interviews from Morocco on abortion. Women on Waves have been blocked from reaching Morocco by war ships in the dock.
Morocco has blazed a reputation as a can-do country when it comes to improving its maternal health statistics.
Seventeen-year-old Boudraa is among the fortunate women benefiting from her nation’s commitment to lowering the number of women who die in childbirth. -Moroccan Moms Benefit from Maternal Health Revolution
Young Moroccans Keep Arab-Spring Spirit Alive
via Womens eNews
By Juhie Bhatia
The youth-led Feb. 20 Movement in Morocco has simmered down to a core group that includes many female activists. They’re keeping an eye on constitutional reforms enacted last year that some say didn’t go far enough. “We want real, radical change,” says one.
“My grandma, every time I meet her, she says don’t protest, you will go to jail, they will beat you,” said Raouyane, an intern at the Moroccan Association of Human Rights. “But I’m not afraid. I really believe in it. If I don’t do this, no one will do this for me.”
Moroccan Suicide Focuses Legal Trackers on Rape
Moroccan activists met in Fez last week to learn how to use an online database of women’s rights court decisions—aside from those by the Supreme Court, Moroccan court decisions are often scattered and difficult to find. They hope it will help propel reforms that were too late for Amina Filali, the teen who killed herself after being forced to marry her rapist.
Moroccan activists have stepped up pressure to scrap laws that allow rapists to marry their victims after a 16 year old killed herself. Amina Filali drank rat poison March 10 in Larache, near Tangiers in the north, after being forced to marry the man who raped her. A protest in Rabat on March 17 in response to the incident was reported to have drawn several hundred people.
Women’s eNews’ Managing Editor Juhie Bhatia is reporting from Morocco on a fellowship from the International Reporting Project (IRP), an independent journalism program based in Washington, D.C. She interviews Global Rights’ Stephanie Willman Bordat.
